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(If there are state digraphs above, this soldier spent some time in a state or national soldiers' home in that state after the war)

Biography

He was born Thomas Pittman Welles, 8 May 1845, in Dalton, Georgia, son of Bodwell Emerson and Lucy E. Welles. Bodwell had come to Georgia from Hopkinton, N.H., before 1842. He married, on 10 September 1868, Sallie Norwood, in Grantville, Georgia.

He enlisted 16 August 1861, as a private in the Dalton Guards, which was Company B of Phillip's Georgia Legion. He was wounded in the head on 2 July 1863 at Gettysburg. Promoted to 2nd Sergeant before 14 Jan 1864, he surrendered at Appomattox on 9 Apr 1865 (listed as S. P. Wells).

He removed to Montgomery, Alabama in 1875, and was auditor and general ticket agent of the Montgomery and Eufala Railroad company in 1876.

Obituary

Thomas P. Wells, of Chattanooga, died at Dixie Lodge Sunday afternoon at 1 o'clock. Monday his body was shipped to Rome, Ga., for interment at family burial grounds. H. W. Wells, a brother of the deceased, was wired but failed to receive the message in time to reach his brother. He met the body at Jacksonville. The deceased was an old Confederate veteran and served as messmate with H. H. Russell for four years in the Dalton Guards.